Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

Shanhai Town, which once covered dozens of counties after Shanhaiguan, has long since been abolished, and has returned from an important town to a place of one pass.

Nowadays, Shanhaiguan's strategic defense function has also completely degenerated. At its peak, the military prestige that was like a forest of guns and swords like a sea has also disappeared with the stability of Liao Province.

Up to now, the function of Shanhaiguan has also changed from a strategic location to a tax card important location.

Liao Province, a rapidly developing Liao Province under the continuous blood transfusion policies of the imperial government, has a lot of waste to do, and the siphon business effect brought by it is obviously not small.

As for the passage to Liao Province, apart from the natural corridor of Shanhaiguan, the only way is by sea.

Of course, if you start from northern Xinjiang and detour through the vast grasslands and the Gobi desert, there is still a way to go.

But obviously, for business, even if it is smuggling and detouring for thousands of miles, it will inevitably make ends meet.

In this way, the function of Shanhaiguan is changing from a strategic location to a commercial hub in the midst of commercial development.

Even though it was snowing in the cold winter, the inside and outside of Shanhaiguan was still full of hustle and bustle.

But today, Shanhaiguan, the most prosperous city in the past, is completely under martial law, and business travelers can only choose to pass through the two wing cities on both sides of the city.

Under the martial law, there is a scene of migratory people camping and resting in full swing. In Shanhaiguan, the firewood, coal, and carts of grain that have been prepared have been transported into the camp under the guard of the soldiers. , In the end, it was distributed to every household of the people who migrated.

Groups of bonfires were burning in the wind and snow, dilapidated tents were swaying in the wind and snow, and countless people were wrapped in thick coats issued by the court, or leaning around the fire, Or curled up in a dilapidated tent, but without exception, they are all numb.

Some officials led the soldiers, pushing pots of boiled potatoes and vegetable porridge through the camp, distributing food to the migrating people.

Although everything seemed very bleak, no matter what, order still clearly existed.

After a busy day, Du Yinxi and his subordinate officials pulled out a little until dusk, and sat around the campfire with a few colleagues, each holding a bowl of hot porridge. said with emotion.

"Yes, soon."

Du Yinxi looked at Shanhaiguan in the wind and snow, and sighed with emotion. Then he looked at the colleagues beside him. They were all in tattered official robes. They were all unshaven and weather-stained. They said they were refugees. No one will not believe it.

An official asked curiously: "Master Du, I heard that you once worked in Liao Province?"

"After the imperial examination, I was assigned to be a county magistrate, and then transferred directly to Shaanxi..."

Speaking of the past, Du Yinxi couldn't hide his emotion. Having worked in Liao Province, he naturally knew that although Liao Province is a bitter and cold place, if it is well developed, it will be a great treasure land that is not weaker than the former Guanzhong Plain!

The reason why it has been sparsely populated is because of the endless turmoil and cold weather!

Now under the rule of Daheng, Liao Province has long been pacified, and cold-resistant crops have been promoted. In addition, the imperial court has provided various policy support for Liao Province for many years. Now, there is only one factor that restricts the development of Liao Province.

That's the population!

And this conundrum...

Du Yinxi looked around at the endless flickering bonfire, but couldn't help shaking his head with those numb faces.

The price is still not small.

After several months of migration, the recorded death toll of the common people reached [-], and the wounded were even more difficult to count.

But it is very obvious that the journey of thousands of miles, involving the migration of nearly [-] people, and the death toll, can be controlled to the number of [-], which can almost be said to be a miracle.

The protection of the prefectures and counties along the way, the protection of the health stations, the overall order coordination, supervision, inspection...

Under the current conditions, it can be said that it has achieved a very good level.

As for casualties, many of them cannot be changed by humans.

Sitting in the car every day, he felt a little unable to hold on, let alone walking thousands of miles.

And all the people, traveling thousands of miles, almost rely on only one pair of feet...

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Chapter 645 Liao Province and the Storm

The mighty migration team rested in Shanhaiguan for three days before setting off again.

The migratory team, which stretched for dozens of miles, braved the wind and snow, passed through the mountains and seas, along the Liaodong Corridor, and finally fell into the raging wind and snow.

Du Yinxi, on the other hand, broke away from the migrating team for the first time since he set off, and under the escort of dozens of cavalry, he led several officials and rode towards Liao Province.

Once out of Shanhaiguan, it was the land of Liaodong.

However, with the pacification of Liaozhen and the establishment of Liaodong Province, this long and narrow Liaodong Corridor was drawn from Liaodong, and Zhili Shanhaifu was established, directly under the central government.

The territory of Liao Province is the area under the jurisdiction of the Nuergandu Command and Envoy Division in the pre-Ming Dynasty.

The jurisdiction extends to the sea in the east, Sakhalin Island in the northeast, the Onan River in the west, the Tumen River in the south, and the Waixing'an Mountains in the north.

However, although the territory is vast, it is also divided into actual control and non-actual control.

The place of real control is the Han-soil order built by the border guards as the protection, and the prefectures, counties, villages and towns as the veins.

Rather than out-of-control places, it refers to places where there are no Han people living, most of them are desolate, or there are indigenous tribes.

Regarding Liao Province, the emperor has always been very pragmatic, focusing on the development of the land where the Han people exist, and the land where the Han people do not exist, he will use the iron horse to sweep the hole and kill them all.

It is obvious that the actual control area of ​​Liao Province is obviously insignificant compared with the vast Liao Province that has been delineated.

In the second year of Zhaowu, when the town of Liao was first flattened and the post-Jin period, including the Liaodong Corridor, the number of Han people in the entire Liao Province was only a few hundred thousand.

The Han people in the Liaodong Corridor obviously accounted for the vast majority of them.

As for Liao Province, it had been occupied by Hou Jin for a long time, and the Han people were slaves, and there was no history that Huang Taiji entered the customs several times to plunder the population.

Therefore, when Liao Province was established at the beginning, its population was only in the tens of thousands. Later, the Son of Heaven personally sat in Liao Town for nearly half a year, summoned the Korean Han people, and at the same time deployed a large army of guards to guard the border, and relocated the families of guards and soldiers. This made the population of Liao Province increase to three As many as 40.

Later, a policy of encouraging birth was established, and at the same time, a generous policy of encouraging migration was established, and the northern land was cleaned up for several years. A large number of gentry and literati, including their families, were dispatched to Liao Province...

Under various measures, the population of Liao Province ushered in a leap-forward growth.

Up to now, the population of Liao Province has reached nearly one million, among which the number of newborns has reached more than [-].

But obviously, compared with the vast territory of Liao Province that can be developed, this number of Han people is undoubtedly extremely insignificant.

A place where there are few Han people means that the rule is extremely unstable, and it also means that to maintain the rule, it must rely on the continuous blood transfusion of the center.

After all, there are few Han people, which means that it is easy for foreign races to survive, and it is difficult to form a ruling order. In order to maintain the ruling order and resist foreign harassment in a place with few Han people, it is necessary to maintain heavy troops.

However, the Han people were small, and it was difficult to form a ruling order. Even if it was formed, it would be difficult to be self-sufficient, let alone maintain a heavy army.

Today's Liao Province is in such an embarrassing situation, which is also the most fundamental reason why since Liao Province was established in the second year of Zhaowu, the central government has not only continued blood transfusions, but also formulated various strategies, all just to increase the number of Han people in Liao Province.

But this time as many as nearly [-] people migrated here. For Liao Province, which has a population of just over one million, it is obviously the top priority of the mother.

As early as after the migration policy was decided, Liao Province, under the instructions of the central government, had already made preparations for receiving the migrants this time.

Such as winter supplies, agricultural tools, seeds, and even administrative resettlement plans, etc...

Du Yinxi took the lead and went to Liao Province in order to connect with the officials of Liao Province in advance, so that the first batch of migration strategies could be successfully completed.

In Linghe County, Shenyang Prefecture, as the county seat of Liao Province bordering Shanhai Prefecture, it became the destination of this migration.

The governor of Liao Province and the county officials involved in the resettlement also rushed to Linghe County immediately after receiving the news that the relocation team had arrived at Shanhaiguan.

After Du Yinxi arrived, and after connecting the detailed migration data with Liao Province, the resettlement discussions one after another were also presided over by the Governor of Liao Province in Linghe City.

After about half a month, the mighty migration team finally arrived at Linghe City.

So far, Du Yinxi and the officials in charge of the migration have finally completed their work.

Responsibilities were transferred to officials of Liao Province, and a resettlement involving nearly [-] people was also carried out in this land of Liao Province.

Nearly [-] people were divided into teams of different numbers. Under the leadership of officials from various prefectures and counties, they set off from Linghe City and headed towards various prefectures and counties in Liao Province. Some Han civilization.

The news of the success of the migration strategy also flew towards the capital through the post system.

On weekdays, the news that the migration was successfully completed would definitely cause quite a stir.

But at the beginning of the sixth year of Zhaowu, when the interests of smuggling in the sea area gradually emerged, the news of the successful migration could hardly attract the attention of civil and military officials.

A big case, with the deepening of the thorough investigation, the interest demands of various forces are different, cut constantly, and the reasons are complicated, it seems that a considerable number of civil servants and military generals have been involved in this so-called love affair, which is actually a conflict between power and profit. In contention.

On the day of early spring, the cold of winter is still there, and the emperor is still sitting high on the clouds, overlooking this struggle for power and profit.

The Son of Heaven knows very well that the rule lies in checks and balances, and nothing can let one side dominate, and the same is true for the sea and the border.

With the help of the war, Wu Xun easily occupied the sea frontier, the interests of Potian were monopolized, and there were naturally many peepers.

Whether it is the martial arts who have never participated in the division of the wealth in the south of the Yangtze River, or the civil servants and gentry who have been suppressed to the extreme, or the civil servants who represent unorthodox births, etc...

Countless peeps are doomed that this turmoil will erupt sooner or later.

The emperor doesn't mind the interests of civil servants and military generals, but the premise is that it is within the rules and order, and, in the end, the emperor must be given the greatest benefits.

Of course, what the emperor cares about is not the so-called monetary profit, but political interests.

In this way, a world where only one type of people is injured is achieved.

The Jiangnan land and water warriors who originally monopolized the entire sea area were extremely aggrieved and traumatized under the tacit attack and division of almost the entire Daheng civil and military forces.

In just over a month, under the inspection of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Department of Shipping, the Department of Taxation, and the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Punishment, dozens of officials and generals were sacked one after another in Quanzhou. It really caused quite a commotion.

But this is just the beginning.

A bigger storm, under the watchful eye of the Son of Heaven, is bound to come...

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6Chapter 16

The thorough investigation of the tax case has already penetrated into a deep water area that cannot be touched by a single department.

Even though it is still complicated, the momentum of thorough investigation seems to be moving in a better direction.

But when a piece of news came out, it was like a thunderclap on the ground, cutting the news continuously, making it messy and intricate, and completely detonating it!

Liu Hongtao, director of the Quanzhou Taxation Department who had been on the cusp from the very beginning, committed suicide in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs on the eighth day of February in the sixth year of Zhaowu after he was escorted back to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and confessed that he was involved in Quanzhou's interests!

Although Liu Hongtao is not considered to be an important figure among the cases that have been ascertained, his identity as the son of the chief minister of the cabinet and the meaning it represents are obviously extremely special.

The son of the chief minister of the cabinet is involved in the case, even if the chief minister of the cabinet personally punctures this cancer, and righteously exterminates relatives, arrests and examines it, but no matter what, the chief minister of the cabinet is obviously absolutely inseparable.

For the crimes that have been found out, Liu Hongtao is at most a crime of dismissal from office, but Liu Hongtao committed suicide in fear of crime...

It seemed that the situation that could be contacted by the chief minister of the cabinet at any time...was cut off directly?

And then, the case reached the hands of the chief minister of the cabinet, and the trial made by the three justices shocked many people.

Although he committed suicide in fear of crime, but the case was not settled, all property of Liu Hongtao was confiscated according to the law, and all his wives, concubines and children were sent to Liao Province.

The successive sudden changes can be described as dizzying.

Everything is tried according to the law, and almost no loopholes can be found.

But all of this undoubtedly gave people an indescribable weirdness.

Shouldn't it be lenient for a father to interrogate his son?Or cover up?

Isn't this normal?

No matter how stern and selfless, people are dead, shouldn't they be tolerant?

The house was copied and the people who were assigned were all descendants of blood!

All of a sudden, there was a lot of chatter, each insisting on their own words.

Is it suicide?Or was he killed?

This is obviously a rather profound question.

But it is also obvious that the question of how is meaningless.

Everyone is dead, and they are still being interrogated in a stern and impartial manner, and no one can say a word of no.

So far, it is also obvious that with Liu Hongtao's death, no matter how involved the case is, the relationship with the chief minister of the cabinet is already tantamount to nothing.

Unless, Liu Hongtao committed suicide or was committed suicide, there is another turning point in this matter, and there is a mistake, otherwise, this case will obviously not involve the chief minister of the cabinet...

However, at the feet of the emperor, many things are obviously inseparable from the will of the emperor.

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In front of the Qianqing palace, the emperor strolled, followed by eunuchs and court ladies, accompanied by the Duke of Jingguo.

"Have you figured it out?"

The emperor stopped and looked at Duke Yasukuni.

Lord Yasukuni shook his head, then nodded again: "I understand."

The emperor chuckled:

"You, you have to think about others. This matter has been suppressed. For Liu Qiyuan, it means that the handle has been handed over to everyone. Whoever wants to control him in the future doesn't need to turn it over. As far as the virtues of those bastards are concerned. , something will happen sooner or later..."